Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | T 106 | |
Title: | MALE GOD STRIDING RIGHT IN HIMATION | |
Category: | Miscellaneous | |
Category Code: | T | |
Object Number: | 106 | |
Description: | Presents a male god striding, left leg forward, to right. The almost profile head tops a 3/4 right torso, legs - l. profile, l. frontal. His hair, rendered in long, wavy strands, is combed from a central point on the skull toward the face and bound by a fillet. The figure once had a full, wavy beard. The forehead is marked only by a thin, shallow crease (incised) and the nose seems to have extended straight down from it. The figure's right eye is destroyed, but the left is indistinct and appears to be unfinished. The majestic figure had broad, powerful shoulders, and well-modelled clavicles. The god wears only a himation, draped from the left shoulder, around the right hip, back to the left arm. One section of it, having curved around the left arm, apperas to be blown upwards; the other end hangs in long, vertical folds at the right. The drapery acquires transparency as it is pulled across the legs; between the legs long, diagonal folds are rendered alternately by light incisions or shallow ridges, which continue in lower relief over the legs. Medium shadows are created between the legs, darker ones on the right to create an outline to the advanced leg. To the right of the drapery, beyond a bit of relief ground, is preserved a tip either of drapery or perhaps of a weapon. The bottom edge of the himation is preserved, but is not undercut; top edge remains only on proper left, below the small bit of abdomen. The right edge of the hanging folds is marked by the flat chisel which creates a series of ridges perpendicular to the background. The relief ground is worked by flat and claw chisels; running dr. in fold at shoulders; reverse unknown. (Smooth-Gardiner) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Ten joining frgts., broken across front of face, near both shoulders, from chest to right knee, ankles. Surface badly chipped and worn. | |
Dimensions Actual: | L. left shoulder to ankle 0.620 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. est. 0.900, W. 0.395, H. head 0.136, W. head 0.124 | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IX.2, G13-1; AJA 13, 1909, p.311, n. 2, fig. 8; AJA 13, 1909, S 526 (legs), p.312, fig. 9. | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Sturgeon, Corinth 9:2, 1977 Publication: Gardiner, American Journal of Archaeolog13:3... 1909b |